Manford Primary: Year 1

Year One are crazy about minibeasts!

2011-07-12T13:42:00.005+01:00

This term we have been learning all about minibeasts. We have become fantastic investigators, finding facts about how they move, eat and protect themselves. Each class went to the environmental garden and observed the minibeasts in action. We then took a class vote deciding which minibeast was our favourite. We chose spiders, ladybirds, butterflies, bumblebees and snails.

Then we put all we had learnt to the test! We made a book about our favourite minibeast including lots of interesting facts. When we came to school on Friday 24th June our class had been transformed into a garden. We were no longer children....we were minibeasts.

We spent the day in character doing many activities including drawing our habitat and learning a song and a new dance. Then in our minibeast groups we acted out what might happen in our day.

We then wrote our own minibeast diary: 'A day in the life of...'.

What a busy day!

Kung Hei Fat Choy! Happy New Year!

2011-02-15T13:42:00.007Z

During the first week of February, the Chinese New Year began. 1D joined in with the celebrations for a whole day. We watched videos showing how they celebrate and read the story of how each year is named after an animal. We found out that all the children in the class who are 6 in 2011 were born in the year of the Rooster and the chidlren who turned 6 in 2010 were born in the year of the Monkey!

We wrote our animal name using chinese symbols. We also made dragon masks, paper lanterns and rugs. It was a lot of fun!

At the end of the day we wore traditional Chinese clothing and took pictures of all the things we had made. As a special treat Miss Man gave us all a fortune cookie to take home.

What a busy day in class 1D!

1M in the computer suite

2011-02-10T16:32:00.004Z

The children in 1M certainly look as if they are enjoying themselves in the computer room.

They have learnt a lot this school year during their sessions in the ICT suite. They have produced some beautiful artwork using the painting programs, developed their keyboard skills and used a range of programs to help them with numeracy and literacy. Of course, they are having such fun that they don't always realise they are learning all the time!

1D become the best of friends!

2010-10-05T16:19:00.010+01:00

In 1D we have spent a lot of time getting to know one another. We chose our best friend and drew a picture of them. We had to look closely at the colour of their skin, their eyes and their hair. We posed for our friends while they drew us and then switched places.

Next we carefully painted our portraits using the correct colours. Then we took pictures with our friends and talked about why we like spending time with one another.

Everyone in 1D are getting on well.

1M make some class rules

2010-10-05T13:53:00.007+01:00

The children in 1M thought about the rules we need to make our class a happy, learning environment. We decided that we need to listen carefully to one another and always do our best. We also want to be kind to one another, share toys fairly and always tell an adult when we are upset or hurt. So far, the rules are working and 1M is a great place to learn!

2010-02-23T15:48:00.002Z

Year 1 have been busy with PE activities this half term. Look at us learning tennis and creating balances in gymnastics!!

Making masks

2009-12-08T16:34:00.004Z

Year One have had lots of fun learning about recycling this year. The Redbridge Recycling Team spent a day in school showing us how to use recycled materials to make beautiful masks. Look at the finished results!

Welcome to year one!

2009-09-14T16:51:00.002+01:00

Year One children have settled into their new classes - they have obviously grown up a lot during the summer holidays. This term we are learning all about ourselves and so far we have sung songs about the parts of our bodies and enjoyed lots of activities using the five senses. We are looking forward to seeing the animals from Wellgate Farm, going to St. Paul's Church for Harvest and a drama morning with an expert from the drama centre.

We're sure that the children agree that year one is great!

Fairy tale rooms

2009-03-24T16:58:00.016Z

The children in Year One were set the homework task of designing a room for a fairytale character. There was a great variety: the Three Bears' Cottage, Cinderella's bedroom, Little Red Hen's kitchen and many more. As part of their design and technology lessons, they then worked in pairs to create the rooms using recycled materials and fabrics. They are very proud of their work, as these photos show!

Book Character Day

2008-10-21T16:37:00.008+01:00

Year One really enjoyed dressing up for Book Character Day. Don't they all look amazing!

DT - 1H's fun day of making a castle.

2008-07-17T13:05:00.024+01:00

As part of our topic this term 'Houses and Homes' we have been looking at houses over time. In DT, we decided to make a type of house and we focused mainly on making a castle.

First, together with our parents, we brought in lots of different boxes from home to use as parts of our castles. We brought in old cornflake boxes, washing powder boxes, toilet/kitchen rolls and many other various boxes - IT WAS VERY TIRING!!!

Then our teacher planned and dedicate an entire day to making our castles. This meant that we spent the morning and after lunch making our castles - YIPPEE!!!

Also, our parents came into school to help us with the sticking and the painting. It was a really fun day and our castles were fantastic. Some of us even made drawbridges for our castles!!!

Thank you for looking at our work and we hope that you enjoy looking at our work as we much as enjoyed making the castles!!!

1H

P.s. Please feel free to leave a comment about our work.

Patterns in Year 1

2008-06-12T17:32:00.011+01:00

In Numeracy in Year 1, we have been looking at patterns and sequences.

One of our lessons was to create our own patterns. Some of us were given counting cubes and coloured shapes, while the rest of us had to draw our own patterns in our maths books.

It was really fun, especially for the children who used the counting cubes and coloured shapes.

We all hope that you enjoy our work on patterns.

Thank you for reading.

Houses and homes topic walk

2008-06-12T17:05:00.021+01:00

Houses and Homes walk

In year 1 we have been looking around our local area looking at different types of houses and homes. We saw lots of different houses including terraced, detached, semi-detached, bungalows and flats.

We all enjoyed looking at the different types of houses, some of us even saw our own houses!! We were very unlucky with the weather and we all got very wet!!!

Year 1 would like to thank all the parents who came along to help us with our walk.

1H's Adventure in our walk around the school

2008-06-12T17:05:00.020+01:00

As part of our topic Houses and Homes, we looked at different types of houses. We decided to go for a walk around the school to explore these houses. We learnt as much as we could before going out for our walk, in order for us to identify the different houses and to know what features the houses may have. Our task was to identify some houses from the worksheet we were given.

We enlisted the help of some of our mums, who were brilliant and helped us with our worksheets.

Overall, we had an excellent time and even the rain didn't put us off!!

Thank you

We've got a Wa Wa!!

2008-04-01T10:15:00.004+01:00

Literacy

Children in 1R are podcasting once again. This time they have been working on poetry and have recorded 'We've Got a Wa Wa in our House'.

Have a listen to their podcast by clicking on the icon above.

Minibeasts

2008-03-13T22:31:00.003Z

Class 1R get Podcasting!!

Click the link below to listen to our first podcast all about mini-beasts. What can you learn?